be sound in using Audacity as a sound editing and production program for making wave, mp3 and podcast files

in using Microsoft products like photostory and moviemaker.

understand how technology can fit and play its part in your Language Maintenance activity for your people and your community.

All participants will achieve a good understanding of practical skills in the following:

Excellent users of Miromaa

Storing and editing still photographic images

Importing digital media to the computer

Creating resources from stored data

Recording metadata

Recording standards, from basic to archival. The appropriate applications of wav, mp3, mpeg and avi files.

Digital audio Recording: People will have been shown how to record language using either a laptop computer with Audacity (free software) or with a Zoom digital recorder.

Editing digital audio files

Storing and editing still digital images: Using Microsoft free software or other alternative.

Transferring digital data from equipment to computer:

Managing text, audio, still and video images on the computer to produce language resources with the Miromaa Language Program. Participants will have been taught how to use the program and began inputting data and images to create their own wordlists.

How to produce a dictionary and lexicons

Recording standards: from basic to archival. The appropriate applications of wav, mp3, mpeg and avi files.